J. Frank Glendon (1915) 🇺🇸
One of the latest additions to the ranks of motion picture leading men is J. Frank Glendon, who has been for a number of years a shining light upon the operatic, dramatic and vaudeville stage.
He is a native of Shoteau, Montana, where his father was a Methodist minister. Shoteau is 55 miles from the nearest railroad and Mr. Glendon says that he remembers well in the days of his boyhood seeing his father start off to the church with his Bible under one arm and his rifle under the other.
Until the age of twenty he lived the life of a Western boy, which includes a good deal of time spent on horseback, throwing a lasso and shooting with a rifle.
From the red school house at Shoteau he went to finish his education at Wesleyan University in Helena, Montana. He studied vocal music at the college and became a local celebrity. He left town suddenly one day with the Roscian Opera Company, who needed a singer of basso roles very much.
Thus, started his stage career which has extended for a period of ten years. He continued singing in opera for several years until the opera business began to wane. He then took to playing parts in dramatic productions and stock companies.
As the pictures continued to get in their work on the stage drama he found refuge in vaudeville. In 1914 he burned his bridges behind him and plunged into the silent drama at Philadelphia, through the kindness of a Mr. Lubin [Edwin Lubin], who resides in that city.
His first feature engagement was to play the leading part in The Salamander for the B. S. Moss Company. He is at present playing the lead opposite Emmy Whalen [Emmy Wehlen] at the B. A. Rolfe studios.
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Bernhardt’s Last Year on the Screen.
The Universal has just received a cablegram from its London headquarters that the negatives of Jean Dore, the Sarah Bernhardt production filmed in Europe, are on the way here, which is interesting, in view of the fact that the actress’ personal tour has been twice postponed and may even be wholly abandoned.
Here we have once more a striking illustration of the amazing development of the motion picture art which has enabled the great Frenchwoman to take just the precaution which will permit the millions of playgoers all over the world to pay her homage even if she never in the flesh faces the public again. The rumors that Madame Bernhardt was having trouble with her artificial leg need hardly be denied when it is stated, the cables proclaim, that never in all her career has she entered into the spirit of an undertaking with more zest and less apparent fatigue than in the picturization of Jean Dore.
The extraordinary feature of this achievement is that not only will Bernhardt be seen in many cities and countries simultaneously, but for the first time in the history of stage or screen a new play by a Parisian author of great renown will be seen on the screen before it is produced here as a spoken play.
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Dr. Boseke on the Job.
Dr. E. J. Boseke, who spent about two months in New York City, during which time the Associated Film Sales Corporation was formed, has returned to his home in Santa Barbara, California, and has taken up his duties at the Santa Barbara motion picture studios. He wires that his companies are hard at work on some new ideas in the way of two-reel dramas to be released on the Associated program.
Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915
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